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Unvarnishing Reality : Subversive Russian and American Cold War Satire / by Maus, Derek C.

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Unvarnishing Reality : Subversive Russian and American Cold War Satire / by Maus, Derek C.

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The Intersecting Realities and Fictions of Virginia Woolf and Colette / by Southworth, Helen

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The Intersecting Realities and Fictions of Virginia Woolf and Colette / by Southworth, Helen

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The Imagination of Class : Masculinity and the Victorian Urban Poor / by Bivona, Daniel, Henkle, Roger B.

Table of Contents: “…Sensational journalism, male detachment, and the feminized victim -- Culturalism, the feminized poor, and the land of deadened affect -- Morrison, Gissing, and the stark reality -- Hell hath its flâneurs : the discourse of the abyss -- Conclusion: Representing the poor and forestalling abjection.…”
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The Imagination of Class : Masculinity and the Victorian Urban Poor / by Bivona, Daniel, Henkle, Roger B.

Table of Contents: “…Sensational journalism, male detachment, and the feminized victim -- Culturalism, the feminized poor, and the land of deadened affect -- Morrison, Gissing, and the stark reality -- Hell hath its flâneurs : the discourse of the abyss -- Conclusion: Representing the poor and forestalling abjection.…”
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Vision's Immanence : Faulkner, Film, and the Popular Imagination / by Lurie, Peter, 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Adorno's modernism and the historicity of popular culture -- "Some quality of delicate paradox": sanctuary's generative conflict of high and low -- "Get me a nigger": mystery, surveillance, and Joe Christmas's spectral identity -- "Some trashy myth of reality's escape": romance, history, and film viewing in Absalom, Absalom! …”
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Vision's Immanence : Faulkner, Film, and the Popular Imagination / by Lurie, Peter, 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Adorno's modernism and the historicity of popular culture -- "Some quality of delicate paradox": sanctuary's generative conflict of high and low -- "Get me a nigger": mystery, surveillance, and Joe Christmas's spectral identity -- "Some trashy myth of reality's escape": romance, history, and film viewing in Absalom, Absalom! …”
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Islam and Politics in Indonesia : The Masyumi Party between Democracy and Integralism / by Madinier, Remy

Table of Contents: “…Half title page; Full title page; Copyright page; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Author's Note; Introduction; Chapter One -- The Party's Infancy: Its Political Genesis and Historical Lineage; Chapter Two -- The Early Signs of Political Schizophrenia: Caught between Stability and Revolution; Chapter Three -- Confronting Reality: Masyumi and the Exercise of Power; Chapter Four -- The Fall; Chapter Five -- Governing in the Name of Islam; Chapter Six -- The Ideal of an Islamic Society; Chapter Seven -- Conclusion…”
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Old Age in the New Land : The American Experience since 1790 / by Achenbaum, W. Andrew

Table of Contents: “…II: The demographic and socioeconomic dimensions of old age -- The rhetoric and realities of growing old diverge in nineteenth-century America -- Old age becomes "modern" in twentieth-century America -- pt. …”
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Islam and Politics in Indonesia : The Masyumi Party between Democracy and Integralism / by Madinier, Remy

Table of Contents: “…Half title page; Full title page; Copyright page; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Author's Note; Introduction; Chapter One -- The Party's Infancy: Its Political Genesis and Historical Lineage; Chapter Two -- The Early Signs of Political Schizophrenia: Caught between Stability and Revolution; Chapter Three -- Confronting Reality: Masyumi and the Exercise of Power; Chapter Four -- The Fall; Chapter Five -- Governing in the Name of Islam; Chapter Six -- The Ideal of an Islamic Society; Chapter Seven -- Conclusion…”
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Old Age in the New Land : The American Experience since 1790 / by Achenbaum, W. Andrew

Table of Contents: “…II: The demographic and socioeconomic dimensions of old age -- The rhetoric and realities of growing old diverge in nineteenth-century America -- Old age becomes "modern" in twentieth-century America -- pt. …”
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Africa : altered states, ordinary miracles / by Dowden, Richard

Table of Contents: “…Africa is a night flight away: images and realities -- Africa is different: Uganda I -- How it all went wrong: Uganda II -- The end of colonialism: new states, old societies -- Amazing, but is it Africa? …”

The Oldest Vocation : Christian Motherhood in the Medieval West / by Atkinson, Clarissa W.

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The Oldest Vocation : Christian Motherhood in the Medieval West / by Atkinson, Clarissa W.

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Nurse Writers of the Great War / by Hallett, Christine E.

Table of Contents: “…Disillusionment and despair: meeting the realities of warThe mystery of War Nurse; Conclusion: the truth about the war; Notes; 8 The British 'VAD'; Introduction: becoming a VAD; Realising war's realities; Vera Brittain's Testament; Enid Bagnold: military medicine as part of the 'war machine'; Needed by the country: Irene Rathbone's 'novel'; Conclusion: the VAD as witness; Notes; 9 Epic romance on Western and Eastern Fronts; Introduction: the romance of volunteer work; Ordeals on the Western Front; 'Wide open world': the adventures of Florence Farmborough.…”
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Nurse Writers of the Great War / by Hallett, Christine E.

Table of Contents: “…Disillusionment and despair: meeting the realities of warThe mystery of War Nurse; Conclusion: the truth about the war; Notes; 8 The British 'VAD'; Introduction: becoming a VAD; Realising war's realities; Vera Brittain's Testament; Enid Bagnold: military medicine as part of the 'war machine'; Needed by the country: Irene Rathbone's 'novel'; Conclusion: the VAD as witness; Notes; 9 Epic romance on Western and Eastern Fronts; Introduction: the romance of volunteer work; Ordeals on the Western Front; 'Wide open world': the adventures of Florence Farmborough.…”
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I Made You to Find Me : The Coming of Age of the Woman Poet and the Politics of Poetic Address / by Hedley, Jane

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I Made You to Find Me : The Coming of Age of the Woman Poet and the Politics of Poetic Address / by Hedley, Jane

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Making News at The New York Times / by Usher, Nikki

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